The Integration of MEPs from Central and Eastern Europe into the European Parliament

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F12%3A10124607" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/12:10124607 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.cepsr.com/dwnld/hokovsky-clanek20120102.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.cepsr.com/dwnld/hokovsky-clanek20120102.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Integration of MEPs from Central and Eastern Europe into the European Parliament

Original language description

This article evaluates the level of integration of Members of the European Parliament from Central and Eastern Europe in the European Parliament after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. The main objective is to address the puzzle of how the European Parliament's political groups could maintain or even increase their voting cohesion after the influx of a significantly large number of new MEPs coming from countries with different historical experience, socio-economic characteristics, and political andparty systems. Three indicators of MEP integration are defined: integration into parliamentary leadership, integration into parliamentary work, and integration into voting patterns. The article uses data from the VoteWatch.eu website on MEPs' activitiesand voting between the years 2004-2011, as well as data from official documents of the European Parliament and its political groups. Analysis of the data reveals that the new member states' MEPs were significantly under-represented in par

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA407%2F09%2F1747" target="_blank" >GA407/09/1747: Eastern Enlargement and Patterns of Decision-making in the European Union</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Středoevropské politické studie (Central European Political Studies Review.)

ISSN

1212-7817

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

35-55

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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